Posted on 09/16/2014 5:21:54 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
I am amazed at how many people bow to the altar when the tabernacle is in a side chapel.
My buddy was an altarboy. He told how he would hold the offering basket right in front of a skin flint until everyone became completely uncomfortable. The pews hated him, ,, the priests thought he was awesome.
Good job Jimmy. ..
Good list. Just sent it to my priest.
But the tabernacle is supposed to be in the center of the sanctuary.
That is okay too because that is where the consecration takes place.
#11, 12 & 20 are all along the same idea. All ignored the past decade, at least, as far as I can tell.
I am not a RC, but on the altar is the bread and wine and the holy vessels for Mass. Maybe Christ’s presence has yet to be invoked, but nevertheless is imminent. If I were a RC, I would certainly reverence the altar upon entering.
You are correct if you are that late. That would be about half way through the Mass when the Liturgy of the Eucharist begins.
I’ll admit it... I love to read the bulletin in mass.
22. And absolutely, positively, if at all possible...do NOT fart in church.
6. Dress modestly and appropriately.
One of the sad social changes in my opinion, is how people don’t dress for church anymore.
OMG young people nowadays don’t know what Sunday best means, becsse they grew up in a time in which people don’t get dressed up for church.
Tee shirts, flip flops, tennis shorts, tennis shoes, tank tops, baseball caps, blue jeans......that’s what people wear to church.
When I was stationed in Germany, a friend of mine invited me to a very conservative Latin mass. Understand that I was on crypto duty and had to be back on base within 20 min so I had a pager to let me know if I was needed. Understand that I was raised Southern Baptist and had never so much as seen the inside of a Catholic church.
Sure enough, in the middle of mass, I got the vibration from the pager and was able to stop it before it started pinging. I quietly moved out of the pew and to a door on the right. At the door, I encountered a nun who was all of 4 foot 2 at the most and 90 years old if she was a day.
Unfortunately, she did not speak English and I did not speak German. The good sister kept whispering and gesturing for me to go back to my seat. However, I needed to get out that door cause I needed to get a cab and get back to base. Well after a couple of minutes of both of us miming our case, I decided that the only way I was going to go out that door was to move the nun and step past her. So I, as gently as I possibly could, picked up the nun and moved her out of my way. Through the door into a very nicely kept garden, a quick turn and out the gate to the street where I grabbed a taxi and was just barely back to the crypto vault in time.
Now for the rest of the story...
I found out later that I had caused quite the scandal. It seems that the door that I left out was reserved for the nuns as it led to the garden that separated the Church from the Convent.
Opps.
I may be wrong but I think most if not all alters will have a relic of a Saint in an alter stone so I believe a bow would still be appropriate however I feel the Eucharist in the tabernacle is far more important. In some parishes it's quite well hidden which is such a shame. In my cousin's parish the tabernacle is in the base of a tower attached to the sanctuary by a small vestibule, you actually have to go outside and they keep it locked up. Sheeshe
You said “omg” and then ripped on young people. (Snicker)
Ps.. you were correct
Don’t drop the Host. The guy right in front of me did just that last Sunday...yikes! I always recieve on the tongue unless asked not to.
Hmm. I’ve certainly never heard of a “nun” door, but maybe it was something specific/traditional to that particular church. Still, LOL at the mental picture of you lifting the 4 foot Sister up and out of your way! ;-)
“Tee shirts, flip flops, tennis shorts, tennis shoes, tank tops, baseball caps, blue jeans......that’s what people wear to church.”
I swap my tee shirt and flip flops for a polo shirt and dress sandals ....
Retired in Florida and loving it!
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